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EWG Overall Score Breakdown
The product score is based on weighted scores for nutrition, ingredient and processing concerns. Generally, nutrition counts most, ingredient concerns next and degree of processing least. The weighted scores are added together to determine the final score. Read more about scores here.
EWG scored on three factors: nutrition, ingredient concerns, and the degree of processing. Read the full scoring methodology.
Considers calories, saturated fat, trans fat, sugar, sodium, protein, fiber and fruit, vegetable and nut content to differentiate between healthful and less healthful foods. For more information on nutrition concerns, read our full methodology.
Contains ingredients known to be a source of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Shortening and Vegetable Shortening [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 41% sugar by weight and contains 3 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Considers food additives, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics and contaminants like mercury and BPA, which can affect human health and the environment. For more information on ingredient concerns, read methodology.
This product is not certified organic [read more]
Contains 5 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, RED 3, BLUE 1, YELLOW 5, and YELLOW 6
Ingredient(s) likely derived from antibiotic-treated animals [read more]
Ingredient(s) derived from animals that may have been treated with hormones and/or growth promoters [read more]
Contains synthetic food dyes [read more]
This product has 11 ingredients with concerns:
Estimates how much the food has been processed. Considers many factors, chief among them, modification of individual ingredients from whole foods and number of artificial ingredients. For more information on processing concerns, read our full methodology.
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
Products with moderate and high processing concerns generally have more artificial ingredients, more ingredients that have been significantly modified from whole foods, and more ingredients overall.
This product is not certified organic [read more]
Contains food additives of higher concern
Contains 5 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, RED 3, BLUE 1, YELLOW 5, and YELLOW 6
Ingredient(s) likely derived from antibiotic-treated animals [read more]
Ingredient(s) derived from animals that may have been treated with hormones and/or growth promoters [read more]
Contains ingredients known to be a source of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Shortening and Vegetable Shortening [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 41% sugar by weight and contains 3 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains synthetic food dyes [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
Natural vs. Artificial Flavors
EWG's Good Food On A Tight Budget
EWG's 2014 Shopper's Guide to Avoiding GE Food
COOKIE: ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, ASCORBIC ACID ADDED AS A DOUGH CONDITIONER, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, ENZYME, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, SHORTENING (PALM OIL, FRACTIONATED PALM OIL), WATER, INVERT SUGAR, COCOA POWDER PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), LEAVENING SODIUM BICARBONATE), NATURAL FLAVOR. CINGS: SUGAR, WATER, PALM OIL, CORNSTARCH, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP CORN SYRUP, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, SALT, ACETYLATED MONOGLYCERIDES (EMULSIFIER), NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, TITANIUM DIOXIDE (COLOR), POLYSORBATE 60, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), CITRIC ACID, FD&C RED #40, FD&C YELLOW #5, FD&C YELLOW #6, FD&C BLUE #1. FONDANT: ICING SUGAR (SUGAR, CORNSTARCH), CORN SYRUP VEGETABLE SHORTENING (PALM OIL, FRACTIONATED PALM OIL, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60), WATER, GLYCERINE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, CELLULOSE GUM, GUM TRAGACANTH POWDER, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, FD&C YELLOW #5, SODIUM DIACETATE, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), FD&C BLUE #1. MILK CHOCOLATE BARS: SUGAR, MILK, CHOCOLATE, COCOA BUTTER, MILK FAT, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVOR. JOLLY RANCHER: SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), VEGETABLE OILS (PALM KERNEL OIL, PALM OIL), CITRIC ACID, MODIFIED POTATO STARCH, GLYCERYL MONOSTEARATE, SODIUM LACTATE, CORNSTARCH, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, TARTARIC ACID, SALT, GLYCERIN, SOYBEAN LECITHIN, SOYBEAN OIL, FD&C RED #40, FD&C YELLOW #5, FD&C YELLOW #6, FD&C BLUE #1, CARRAGEENAN. MINI BEADS: DEXTROSE, CORN SYRUP, CITRIC ACID, CALCIUM STEARATE, TAPIOCA DEXTRIN, TITANIUM DIOXIDE (COLOR), CONFECTIONER'S GLAZE, CARNAUBA WAX, ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, FD&C RED #3, FD&C RED #40, FD&C YELLOW #5, FD&C YELLOW #6, FD&C BLUE #1. MILK CHOCOLATE KISSES: SUGAR, MILK, CHOCOLATE, COCOA BUTTER, MILK FAT, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVOR. TWIIZZLERS STICK: CORN SYRUP, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, PALM OIL, SALT, MONO-GLYCERIDES, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CORNSTARCH, GLYCERIN, POTASSIUM CARBONATE, FD&C RED #40, SODIUM CARBONATE.
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Starch, Shortening, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Syrup, Sugars, Dextrose, Vegetable Oil, Invert Sugar, Vegetable Shortening, Modified Food Starch, Modified Starch (Corn), Icing Sugar, Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, Lecithin (Soy), and Citric Acid [read more]
Contains ingredients derived from wheat and milk - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
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